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Cradle to Cradle® - the way forward
Cradle to Cradle® is an innovative concept that builds on
nature’s blueprint. It provides manufacturers with a verified
rating system for assessing and constantly improving products
based on five criteria Every ingredient must be safe and not harmful
to health or the environment.
Cradle to Cradle product certification is both comprehensive
and rigorous. It requires a paradigm shift in thinking about how
it is designed, what’s in it and where it goes after use.
Armstrong is the first global ceilings manufacturer, and one of
only a relatively small group of companies worldwide, to have
accepted the challenge.
Material
Health
Material
Reutilization
Every component must biodegrade naturally
to restore the soil or up-cycle into high quality
materials for subsequent products.
Material Reutiliization
The C2C blueprint categorises substances as either
biological or technical nutrients :
All energy used in manufacture should be from
renewable sources, and must be used efficiently.
Renewable
Energy
Water
Stewardship
production
Water must be managed and used effectively,
with no unhealthy releases into the local
ecosystem.
technical nutrients
Social
Fairness
Manufacturers should conduct business
responsibly, respecting the health, safety and
rights of people and the planet.
Products are measured to achieve five levels of certification
from Basic through to Platinum. Progress is transparent as
manufacturers embark on the challenging journey to achieve
ultimate sustainability for their products.
Technical Cycle
for Products
for Service
return disassembly
product
use
Technical nutrients are materials that can be fully and
continuously recycled (up-cycled) for subsequent
generations of products, without loss of integrity or
quality.
Product Certification Scorecard
CRADLE TO CRADLE®CERTIFIED PRODUCT SCORECARD
CM
SILVER
PROGRAMME CATEGORY
BASIC
BRONZE
SILVER
MATERIAL HEALTH
MATERIAL REUTILIZATION
RENEWABLE ENERGY & CARBON
MANAGEMENT
WATER STEWARDSHIP
SOCIAL FAIRNESS
OVERALL CERTIFICATION LEVEL
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GOLD
PLATINUM
What Cradle to Cradle®
means for Armstrong
PERLA OP 0.95 first with C2C certification
ULTIMA+ full range with C2C certification
Armstrong’s Perla OP 0.95 is the first mineral fibre laminated
ceiling tile to be granted C2C Bronze certification.
Smoother, whiter and re-engineered for longer life. The first full
range of ceiling tiles in the world to be C2C certified.
ULTIMA+
PERLA OP 0.95
BRONZE
Sustainability performance (August 2014)
Light reflectance
42%
5%
100%
Class A
absorber
A+ Ultra Low
Emissions
85%
Included in the Armstrong
Recycling Programme: ✔
Recycled content Rapidly renewable content
Recyclability
Acoustical comfort
Air Quality
BRONZE
Sustainability performance (August 2014)
Light reflectance
≤64%
5%
100%
Class A
absorber
≤ A+ Ultra Low
Emissions
87%
Included in the Armstrong
Recycling Programme: ✔
Recycled content Rapidly renewable content
Recyclability
Acoustical comfort
Air Quality
Armstrong and the environment
Armstrong has long recognised the importance of protecting
the environment and using resources responsibly. We have
developed ceiling systems that improve space illumination,
reduce noise and enable the use of thermal mass design for
more efficient heating and cooling of the building environment.
And we have been systematically reducing our
environmental footprint and reducing the environmental
impact of our products through:
• Careful raw material selection and reformulation, and
improved closed loop manufacturing technologies.
• Reducing production waste; introducing take back schemes
and increasing the amount of recycled content in all of
our tiles.
• Increased use of renewable energy and rebalancing of
existing supplies to lower carbon alternatives.
• Membership of technical committees and Green Building
Councils in Europe, Asia and the United States, actively
promoting the environmental agenda.
• Support for groundbreaking projects designed to demonstrate
the viability of very low energy and C2C construction.
• Use of recognised life cycle assessment methodology to
continually improve product environmental performance.
Armstrong and Recycling
Recycling - End-of-Life and Off-cut
A unique take-back scheme is helping to
increase the recycled content of Armstrong’s
mineral fibre tile range.
Our Ceiling-to-Ceiling recycling programme is a natural
extension of our use of recycled materials and environmentally
compatible manufacturing processes that reduce our
environmental footprint.
What Cradle to Cradle®
means for our customers
The Cradle to Cradle® programme has been developed to meet growing customer demand for sustainable products, with C2C
certification already becoming a requirement for building projects in the United States and Europe.
It:
• Helps specifiers and clients through the maze of environmental
claims, providing a transparent mechanism to compare
the sustainability performance of competitive products.
• Helps customers chose good-quality and healthy materials
without paying more.
• Provides transparency regarding material safety.
• Provides a safer environment for building users.
• Adds value to a project and is part of the Armstrong
ceiling recycling programme.
• Helps protect and sustain our environment for future
generations by keeping resources in the economy
for longer.
Want
to learn
more
?
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